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Our March monthly competition is now open for entries.

=== Please Included Metadata Embedded With Images Submitted ===

This Month's Theme
For this month our theme will be Creative. If you need some inspiration then these images from Sony's World Photography Awards might help, along with Flickr.

Competition Dates
Entries start: The date that this post is published.
Entries end: March 21st at 3am Eastern Time (9am GMT)
Voting starts: March 21st at 3am Eastern Time (9am GMT)
Voting ends: March 28th at 3am Eastern Time (9am GMT)

What Do I Get if I Win?
I'm afraid it's just the joy of taking part but I will be adding badges to winners profiles.

How to Enter + Rules
  1. Post your entries in this thread by scrolling down to the reply box then hitting the 'upload images' button. Insert image as full image not thumbnail.
  2. Canon R Series cameras only. Adapted lenses on R Series bodies are fine.
  3. Camera metadata must be included in the images to verify.
  4. Only one photo entry per member.
  5. Keep the photos clean and family friendly.
  6. Please don't use sky replacements or AI image generation.
  7. You are free to change your image during the entry period.
How to Vote (when voting opens)
  1. Use the vote button (up arrow) to the right of the post (below post on mobile) to vote up images that you like
  2. You can vote on as many images as you like apart from your own
Themes for 2025
Our themes for the year have already been decided to give you a heads-up on what's coming next.
  • Jan: Black & White
  • Feb: Natural World and Wildlife
  • Mar: Creative
  • Apr: Action
  • May: Mechanized Machines
  • Jun: Land and City Scapes
  • Jul: At Home
  • August: Close Up / Macro
  • Sep: Long Exposure
  • Oct: Street
  • Nov: After Dark
  • Dec: Your Favorite Shot of 2025
Feedback
I'd really appreciate feedback about how the competition is running but please don't post it in this thread. Instead please post any feedback in our Feedback Forum.

Thank you for taking part and good luck!
 
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First try at lighting effects. Poles wrapped with Christmas lights.

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Canon Canon EOS R5
Apertureƒ/4
Focal length105.0 mm
Exposure time1/3 second(s)
 
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The Druid

Playing around with a little Paraffin Wax and Generative Fill for the Staff.

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A creative edit of a shot taken in the woodlands at Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales.

Software used: Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels and Topaz Labs Studio 2/ PAI.

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A Life and Death Struggle...

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Just goofing around taking pictures through my kitchen window, and since the focus was kind of soft (duh) I decided to have fun with this one:

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Best I can do for EXIF:

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This is a layered image of 4 Celestial related events I was able to photograph with R5 camera in 2024. A Solar Eclipse in Maine, a rarely seen Aurora captured from a mountain side location on Skyline Drive in Virginia, along with the Milky Way and the Atlas Comet seen from Big Meadows on Skyline Drive. The base image is the Atlas comet and Milky Way with evening stars taken at Big Meadows.

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A new creative image an Aurora Corona over the Vestrahorn mountains in Iceland

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A photo of the Longfellow Bridge, which spans the Charles River and connects Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The bridge was restored around the early 2010s, using historically accurate riveting techniques. LED lighting was added to the arches and the colors are changed for different events. For this photo, I took a tight crop of half of the center arch, then duplicated/mirrored the span. Then I used the polar coordinates filter in Photoshop to create the "twisted bridge", which kind of looks like a space alien to me. The red "eyes" are navigational lights for the bridge.
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Call it a creative solution to a lack of preparedness. Roadside waterfall. I wanted a long exposure look and didn’t have my tripod or ND’s unpacked.

I used the multiple exposure feature of the R6II using average (as opposed to additive) for the combination. This is nine shots combined in camera for the blurred water look.

RF 24-240 @ 24mm; f/9; ISO 100; 1/60th, and 9 total shots. Camera braced on a fence rail for added stability.
 
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A big thanks to all who have entered our competition this month. It would have been nice to see a few more entires but I know it was a little more challenging this month. Voting is enabled. Please remember that you can vote on as many images as you like, just not your own.
 
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A big thanks to everyone who entered and voted in our Creative competition this month. Clearly not quite as popular as last months Natural World and Wildlife theme, nevertheless we have still received some brilliant and very creative entries!
  • 1st place with 8 votes was @dgphoto8 with a superb creative shot of the Longfellow Bridge. At first I thought this was some kind of space alien as well :)
  • 2nd place with 7 votes was @AOC with another superb creative shot comprised of 4 celestial related events photographed in 2024. Definitely very unique and perfectly put together.
  • 3rd place with 6 votes was @Nick L with a stunning shot of the aurora corona over the Vestrahorn mountains in Iceland. This is certainly a little more spectacular than the aurora captured from my garden last year!
The theme for April's competition will be Action which will be opening for entries tomorrow.
 
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